I'm so sick of rain. The rain it raineth every day... that's England, or so it seems after nine years of living here. (I can't believe I start my tenth year in August.)
Here, we get two inches of snow and I think it's nothing. But everyone else thinks it's horrible, the roads are impassable etc. My first year here I was incredulous, hearing that a colleague's husband had got his car stuck in three inches of snow. She thought it was a huge amount, and I couldn't figure out how anyone could get stuck in so little snow. ;) Granted, our tyres aren't as good -- we don't have all-weather radials, for example, but still. I've taught Ian to steer into the skid. :)
When we went to Sweden for 12th Night in 2008 with a 1.5 hour drive from the site to Stockholm on Sunday morning and it was snowing, guess who drove? Not the native Englishman. ;)
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Date: 2009-04-27 05:15 pm (UTC)Here, we get two inches of snow and I think it's nothing. But everyone else thinks it's horrible, the roads are impassable etc. My first year here I was incredulous, hearing that a colleague's husband had got his car stuck in three inches of snow. She thought it was a huge amount, and I couldn't figure out how anyone could get stuck in so little snow. ;) Granted, our tyres aren't as good -- we don't have all-weather radials, for example, but still. I've taught Ian to steer into the skid. :)
When we went to Sweden for 12th Night in 2008 with a 1.5 hour drive from the site to Stockholm on Sunday morning and it was snowing, guess who drove? Not the native Englishman. ;)